30 acts confirmed for 2000trees festival
aaamusic | On 28, Feb 2011
30 new acts have been added to the 2000trees festival bill, including Sucioperro as Early Entry evening headliner.
Tribes, Danny & the Champs, Zun Zun Egui, Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun, The Anomalies and We the Undersigned will perform on the main stage.
The Cave (new second stage) will host Chickenhawk, Bo Ningen, Invasion, &U&I, Witchsorrow, The Me! Me! Me’s? and The Echoe
Fighting Fiction, Scoundrels, Left With Pictures, Falcons, and The Retrospective Soundtrack Players will perform in the Leaf Lounge.
And the Greenhouse stage will see DJ Primer, Side Step DJs, Charlie Barnes, Ben Marwood, tatterattles, B-Sydes, EsseB, The Yuya, Midnight Mile, Dan Heaver, and Gaz Brookfield.
And the ever popular Headphone Disco will now be held on two stages and take place over two nights.
They join headliners Frightened Rabbit and Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip on the bill, with a total of 80 acts on four stages, in the picturesque Cotswolds, on July 15th and 16th.
Celebrating its 5th birthday this summer, 2000trees has established itself as one of the leading small festivals in the British summer calendar, winning the Grass Roots Festival Award in the UK Festival Awards 2010 – voted for by festival fans. In the Awards’ words:
“Often the best small festivals spring from an organic labour of love and a long-time dream which has been shared by thousands more. These festivals should be celebrated, not just for the courage and vision shown by their organisers, but also because they never forget where they’ve come from, supporting their local communities and new music along the way while retaining an independent spirit and resisting commercial saturation.”
2000trees is also ‘A Greener Festival Award’ winner for its dedication to being one of the UK’s greenest festivals, set within the stunning backdrop of Upcote Farm, near Cheltenham.
Created by a group of friends in 2007, the festival was borne out of frustration with the ever increasing corporate sponsorship and ‘musical merry-go-round’ nature of the larger mainstream British festivals. Disillusioned by extortionate ticket prices and over priced food and drink, this band of festival veterans vowed to take matters into their own hands and in true punk rock style set about developing the perfect antidote.
Tickets cost just £59 for an adult weekend camping pass. Children under 10 go free but children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Early Entry tickets for Thursday, July 14th are £12.
More information is available from 2000trees festival website: www.twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk
Line-up so far:
Main stage
Headliners: Frightened Rabbit, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip
Others: Los Campesinos!, Imperial Leisure, Islet, Headphone Disco, Tribes, Danny & the Champs, Zun Zun Egui, Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, The Anomalies, We the Undersigned, Ellen & the Escapades, Straight Lines
The Cave
And So I Watch You From Afar, Your Demise, Amplifier, Devil Sold His Soul, Feed the Rhino, Headphone Disco, Malefice, Exit Ten, Japanese Voyeurs, Chickenhawk, Bo Ningen, Invasion, Kong, &U&I, Talons, The James Cleaver Quintet, Mojo Fury, Exit_International, The Divine Secret, Witchsorrow, The Me! Me! Me’s?
Leaf Lounge
Dizraeli and the Small Gods, StringerBessant, Sound of Rum, Stagecoach, Tall Ships, Yndi Halda, Dave McPherson, The Travelling Band, Billy Vincent, Out Like a Lion, Crazy Arm (acoustic), Charlie Barnes & The Geekks, The Momeraths, Fighting Fiction, Scoundrels, Left With Pictures, Falcons, The Retrospective Soundtrack Players.
The Greenhouse
Joe Summers, David Gibb, Rufio Summers, Oxygen Thief, Nicholas Stevenson, Daisy Chapman, DJ Primer, Side Step DJs, Charlie Barnes, Tatterattles, B-Sydes, DJ Esse B, The Yuya, Midnight Mile, Dan Heaver, Gaz Brookfield
Thursday (Early Entry Evening)
Sucioperro, Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, Maybeshewill, Kill it Kid, Crazy Arm, OST, The Echoes
